Caprice’s Reviews > What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures > Status Update

"The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible."

The richest 10% of the world population owns 76% of the wealth, takes 52% of the income, and accounts for 48% of global carbon emissions. The poorest 50% of the world gets only 8.5% of the income and accounts for 12% of carbon emissions.

“Money is made up. The planet is real. And yet it’s the made-up thing we bow down to.”

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.
And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”

The biology of forest and the physics of the ocean and atmosphere all create rainfall